The market value of water in the Ogallala Aquifer.

摘要: The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the Formation or High Plains aquifer, is a 174,000-square-mile body of water that underlies parts Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. contains about 3.5 billion acre-feet (Symposium II 1984), but in many areas aquifer has been declining from continued deep well pumping (Sloggett Dickason 1986). receives little recharge, especially southern portion, such represents finite nonrenewable resource stock. As result concerns residents States over declines Congress authorized Secretary Commerce to conduct Six-State Regional Resources Study 1976 (High Associates 1982). study indicated, even under most effective conservation program, more than million acres farmland then